Brighthelmstone

English Etymology en ang Beorthelmestūn Beorthelm's farm Proper noun en now historical The town of Brighton; its official name until 1810. en 2007 w:Julie Burchill; Daniel Raven 60–61 https://archive.org/details/madeinbrightonfr0000burc/page/62/mode/1up Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea Virgin Books The nationwide attack on social housing stock by central and local government has been particularly virulent in Brighton & Hove, where the council were not above attempting a sort of half-hearted, class-based ethnic-cleansing-without-violence, wherein families who have been in Brighton for generations—who could probably even trace their lineage right back to Brighthelmstone if they could be bovvered , and if they were that sad sort of bourgeois life-lacker—were encouraged to give up their council homes and be ‘resettled’ in places as far away as Wales, for a few hundred pounds.